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a questionnaire is a set of standardizedquestions for gathering the same information from a group of individualsthe purpose of using a questionnaire is usually to make comments about the groupwho filled it out or to generalize from the wider group to a population ofimportance for your research there are two main types of questionnaire thedescriptor questionnaire is designed to find out the extent of a particulartopic or issue within a population of interest descriptive questionnairestypically ask how many people participate in a certain behavior orhold a particular opinion it is important for samples in descriptivequestionnaires to be representative of your research population the analyticalquestionnaire is set up so that you can explore and explain certain associationsand relationships between particular concepts this style is often used intheory building and theory testing researchtherefore statistically stable sample sizes are more important thanrepresentative ones obviously some researchers may seek to be bothdescriptive and analytical and therefore you'll need to have both arepresentative sample and a sample size appropriate for the suitable processesyou are using questionnaires can be administered in a variety of waysquestionnaires can be self-administered that is participants fill in thequestionnaire by themselves without influence or involvement by theresearcher a traditional method is to mail your questionnaire to yourparticipant this can become expensive with large sample size but because itcan be personalized it can also be successful it is usualpractice to include a reply paid envelope to encourage people to respondanother way to distribute a questionnaire is to hand out thequestionnaire at the end of your course or to leave a pile for participants tocollect a particular location like at the library information desk once againthe participants are left to interpret the questions by themselves and thehas minimal influence over the responses the internet also provides opportunitiesfor self-administered questionnaires questionnaires can be sent as anattachment to an email participants fill out the questionnairesave it then return it to you via email a more sophisticated way would be foryou to send your participants a link to an online questionnaire and then yourparticipants fill in the questionnaire using their web browser there are agrowing number of companies providing the service Survey Monkey is popular theUniversity of Southampton provides a similar product called I survey somequestionnaires are administered in an interview type situation telephoneinterviews are very common however they often have a poor reputation due tooverused by market researchers and telephone sales telephone interviewsinvolve the researcher reading out the questions and a limited number ofresponses to the participant it's important for the researchers to stickto his or her script so that the format and delivery for each participantremains consistent...